Toms River 09/12/12 ---- Cheryl Leitner who competed in the ParaOlympics unpacks. The family returned home to find their house burglarized. Robert Ward/ Staff Photographer.

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It takes a lot to level the euphoria of competing in front of a stadium filled with 80,000 people, representing your country on the world stage, but Paralympian Cheryl Leitner knows all about it.

Leitner, who is a quadriplegic and a three-time track and field competitor in the Paralympic Games, returned from this year's games in London to find her home in Toms River had been broken into and trashed.

The suspect, she said, stole the items typical of a breaking-and-entering crime, cash and jewelry. But they also took things from Leitner's home that she earned or gathered while representing ...